GODWIN, Francis

GODWIN, Francis
(1562-1633)
   English bishop and writer, most noted for his striking description of a lunar UTOPIA in the posthumously and anonymously published The Man in the Moone, or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales, the Speedy Messenger (1638). The flight to thelow-gravity MOON, accomplished in a flying machine drawn by "gansas" (wild geese) who winter there, is described with some realism; FG cautiously allows that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) may have been right in some of his theories. (Domingo Gonsales reappears as a character in sf in work by CYRANO DE BERGERAC.) FG's book was reprinted many times in the followingcenturies - apparently often cut - and was perhaps the most influential work of PROTO SCIENCE FICTION. It is available in The Man in the Moone: An Anthology of Antique Science Fiction (anth 1971) ed Faith K. Pizor and T.Allan Comp.
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   See also: FANTASTIC VOYAGES.

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